Sniper fires at suspect in Dallas police headquarters attack; condition undetermined  —  Urgent update: A police sniper has fired at the suspect and police say the suspect is dead.  —  Police were continuing attempts to negotiate with a man in an armored vehicle after he opened fire …

Rachel Dolezal's Brother Says She Warned: “Don't Blow My Cover”  —  Ezra Dolezal told BuzzFeed News that his adopted sister warned him to not tell anyone in Spokane that she wasn't really black as she started a new life for herself.  —  It was 2012, and Rachel Dolezal had a warning …

Mitt's new mission  —  Romney is working to rid the GOP presidential primary of the mayhem that marked his own race.  —  DEER VALLEY, Utah — Mitt Romney is working with an unlikely collaborator — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who bankrolled Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign …

John Stamos — Busted for DUI (VIDEO UPDATE)  —  BUSTED FOR DUI  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  John Stamos was booked for DUI Friday night in Beverly Hills, and was allegedly so out of it ... police sent him straight to a hospital.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Bev Hills officers responded …

‘My position was: you need to have boots on the ground’  —  Former U.S. President George W. Bush tells Israel Hayom in an exclusive interview, “My strategy, the Bush doctrine, was to vigorously pursue those who do us harm and bring them to justice”  • “America has been very supportive of Israel,” he remarks.

Scott Walker's Wisconsin Audition  —  Anticipating a Republican presidential bid by Scott Walker, the two-term governor of Wisconsin, both The New York Times Magazine and The Washington Monthly recently published lengthy articles about him.  (The Times feature, which is in the magazine this weekend, was published online Friday.)

Why Americans Are Turning Against Free Trade  —  A decade and a half ago, I filled my days writing speeches urging Congress to grant President George W. Bush fast-track trade authority.  If memory serves, I wrote more speeches on that one subject than on any other.

The rocky history of Roosevelt Island  —  At its heart, this American landmark is a a living, historical embodiment of the major issues Hillary Clinton wants to champion.  —  Lead image by Getty.  —  Today, Hillary Clinton delivered the first major policy speech of her presidential campaign standing …

As sex-abuse allegations multiply, Billy Graham's grandson is on a mission to persuade Protestant churches to come clean.  —  I. The Calling  —  In November 2012, Bob Jones University, the longtime flagship institution of fundamentalism, announced it had hired GRACE (short for Godly Response …

Clinton launches in Obama's shadow  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign is ready to go.  The fired-up part is still a work in progress.  —  Clinton will officially kick off her 2016 bid for the White House this morning on New York's Roosevelt Island, a sedate, middle-class enclave lashed by the currents of the East River.

Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President  —  WASHINGTON — After years of Republican derision of President Obama's fiscal agenda, which they frequently describe as socialism, in the end it was the president's own Democratic Party that deprived …